Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-07-13

to ride out of reach of your mother
prayers. Why, ship crossing the Altar
tic in six days can't sail away from that
A sailor finds them on the lookout as b
takes his place, and finds them on the mas
as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle
rope in the tempest, and finds them swing
ing on the hammock when he turns in
Why not be frank and acknowledge it-th
most of us would long ago have been dashe,
to pieces had not gracious and loving hand
steadily ard lovingly and nightly held tn
rope.
But there must come time when w
shall find out who these Damascenes wer
who lowered Paul in the basket, and gree
them and all those who have rendered tt
God and the world unrecognized and unre
corded services. That is going to be On,
of the glad excitements of heaven, thu
hunting up and picking out of those who
did great good on earth and got no credit
for it. Here the Church has been going or
nineteen centuries, and yet the world has
not recognized the Sc vices of the people il
that Damascus balcony. Charles G. Fin
ney said to dying Christian: "Give my
love to st. Paul when you meet him.
When you and I meet him, as we we'll,
shall ask him to introduct me to those peo-
pie who got him out of the Damascene
peril.
We go into long sermons to prove that
we will be able to recognize people in
heaven, when there is one reason we fail to
present, and that is better than all-God
will introduce us. We shall have them all
pointed out. You would not be guilty oi
the impoliteness of having friends in youl
parlor not introduced, and celestial polite
ness will demand that we be made &C.
quainted with all the heavenly household
What rehearsal of old times and recital o1
stirring "reminiscences If others fail to
give introduction, God will take us through,
and before our first twenty-four hours in
heaven-if it were calculated by earthly
| timepieces-have passed, we shall meet
and talk with more heavenly celebrities
than in our entire mortal state we met with
earthly celebrities. Many who made great
noise of usefulness will sit on the last seat
by the front door of the heavenly temple,
| while right up within arms reach Of the
| heavenly throne will be many who, though
| they could not preach themselves or dc
great exploits for God, nevertheless held
the rope.
|
on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely;
| they must have killed in battle million
men. Surely they must have been buried
| with all the csthedrals sounding a dirge
and all the towers of all the cities tollins
the national grief. Who art thou, mighty
one of heaven2 81 lived by choice the un
married daughter in an humble home that
I might take care of my parents in theil
old age, and endured without complaints
all their querulousness and administered te
all their wants for twenty years.
| Let us pass on round the circle of thrones
| Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? 90
was for thirty years Christian invalid ano
suffered all the while, occasionally writing
note of sympathy for those worse off thar
| I, and was general confdant of all those
who had trouble, and once in while I was
strong enough to make garment for thai
poor family in the back lane." Pass on te
another throne. Who art thou, mighty one
of heaven? 81 was the mother who raised
whole family of children for God, and
| they are out in the world Christian mer.
chants, Christian mechanics, Christian
wives, and have had full reward of all
my toll" Let us pass on in the circle Of
thrones. 81 had Sabbath-school class,
and they were always on my heart, and
they all entered the kingdom of God, and
/ 1 am waiting for their arrival
But who art thou, the mighty one oi
heaven on this other throne? "In time OF
bitter persecution I owned house in Da-
mascus, house on the wall. A man who
preached Christ was bounded from street
to street, and hid him from the assassins,
and when I found them breaking in my
house and I could no longer keep hin,
safely, I advised him to flee for his life, and
basket was let down over the wall with
the maltreated man in it, and l was one
who helped hold the rope" And / said
''Is that all n' And he answered "That is
ALL" And while was lost in amazement,
heard strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarse
from many exposures, and triumphant as
though it might have belonged to one OF
the martyrs, and it said /: "Not many
mighty, not many noble are called, but God
hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty, and
base things of the world and things which
are despised hath God chosen, yea, and
things which are not to bring to naught
things which are, that no flesh ahould glory
in His presence" And l looked to see
from whence the voice came, and 10 ii
was the very one who had said "Through
window in a basket was I let down by
the wall.
Henceforth think of nothing as insignif-
cant. A little thing may decide your all.
A Cunarder put out from England for New
York. 1t was we'll equipped, but in put
ting up stove in this pilot box a nail was
driven too near the compass. You know
how that nail would affect the compass
The ships officer, deceived by that dis.
tracted compass, put the ship two hundred
miles off her right course, and suddenly the
man on the lookout cried Gland no p
and the ship was halted within few yards
of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. -
A six-penny nail came near wrecking a
Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty desti.
MES.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking word, puts his hand behind his
| head and tilts back his chair to think, and
the ceiling falls and crushes the table and
| would have crushed him. A minister in
Jamaica at night by the light of an insect
called the candle-fy, is kept from stepping
over precipice a hundred feet. F. w
Robertson, the celebrated English clergy
man, said that he entered the ministry
from train of circumstances started by
the barking of a dog. Had the wind blowr
one way on certain day the Spanish In
QUESTION would have been established il
England but it blew the other way, ant
that dropped the accursed institution will
seventy five thousand tons of shipping tt
the bottom of the sea, or flung the splint
cred logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life O
mine. Three naughts placed on the righ
side of the figure one make thousand
and six naughts on the right side of tn
figure one, million, and our nothingnes
placed on the right side may be augmenta
tion illimitable. All the ages of time am
eternity affected by the basket let dow
from Damascus balcony. -
What makes the breath so fragrant, pure?
What makes the rosy gums endure?
What makes the teeth so pearly white?
What MAKE es the mouth dear delight?
| 'Tis SOZODONT, that precious boon
Il Which none can use too late, too soon.
1t is Never too Late